The UglyBeautyCage Archives (Series #1) - Combining alignment with disjointure in free improvisation.
These 4 spontaneous compositions came into existence as the fruits of unrehearsed playing and spontaneous improvisation by Ralph Lichtensteiger and George Koehler, on Nov 21, 1999, and are part of a larger blizzard of hardcore dada that evolved during a series of rehearsals to investigate and develop material for our UglyBeautyCage project, in preparation for a concert in Frankfurt that was realized March 31 and April 1, 2000. There are no overdubs on these recordings.
Live interaction between musicians breathes life into the recordings of compositions - surely that's not REALLY difficult to grasp? These days, considering the possibilities of increased control that modern studio facilities offer, it should be possible to easily combine those creative processes of jazz musicians in the Sixties, so that the interpretation of the compositions profit from interaction, i.e., recording compositions in a live ensemble manner without overdubbing, just as if the group were in a concert situation, as opposed to recording each instrument separately, and then arranging the tracks on tape or disc. Overdubs are all very well, and particularly useful if you compose in this way, but making music together with others boils down to interaction, that's more important than perfectionism.
Instruments
Beginning To Feel Constructed: electric guitar, MiniDisk player (scratching), prepared piano corpus
Dialogue 1: electric guitar, bowed electric bass, flute, harmonica, MiniDisk player (scratching), prepared piano corpus
Dialogue 2: electric guitar, electric bass, violin, harmonica, flute, MiniDisk player (scratching), prepared piano corpus, voice
Plant Trouble: voice, electric bass, electric guitar, MiniDisk player (scratching), prepared piano corpus
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